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Pollywoggy
November 5th, 2009, 06:05 PM
I installed karmic and discovered that the desktop version does not offer the option to encrypt the home directory using ecryptfs.

Is there a way to do it now or do I need to reinstall using the alternate installer?
Mighty_Joe
November 5th, 2009, 06:37 PM
I installed karmic and discovered that the desktop version does not offer the option to encrypt the home directory using ecryptfs.

Are you certain about that? (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/encrypted-home-now-offerred-at-installation.html)
You could try this procedure (http://gentoo-blog.de/ubuntu/encrypted-home-and-swap-partition-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic/), but I haven't tried it.
Pollywoggy
November 5th, 2009, 07:18 PM
Are you certain about that? (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/encrypted-home-now-offerred-at-installation.html)
You could try this procedure (http://gentoo-blog.de/ubuntu/encrypted-home-and-swap-partition-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic/), but I haven't tried it.

Thanks, that info is for LUKS, though. I want to use ecryptfs. I use LUKS on my encrypted USB pen drives.

I am going to try to install Karmic again and if that fails, I will install Jaunty and then upgrade. I will use the text-based installer. It is slower but offers the option of encrypting the home directory.